Organotin mercapto compounds



Patented Aug. 29, 1961 2,998,441 ORGANOTIN MERCAPTO COMPOUNDS Gerry P. Mack, Jackson Heights, and Emery Parker, New York, N.Y., assignors, by mesne assignments, to Carlisle Chemical Works, Inc., Reading, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio No Drawing. Original application Jan. 2, 1953, Ser. No. 329,481, now Patent No. 2,914,506, dated Nov. 24, 1959. Divided and this application July 3, 1959, Ser. No. 824,788

1 Claim. (Cl. 260-4217) The invention relates to novel organotin mercapto compounds, and this application is a division of our copending application Serial No. 329,481, filed J an. 2, 1953, for Halogen-Containing Resins Stabilized With Organo- Tin Mercapto Compounds, now Patent No. 2,914,506.

The new organotin mercapto compounds have the formula wherein R and R are monovalent hydrocarbon radicals, R" is a carboxylic acid radical selected from the group consisting of monocarboxylic acid radicals and polycarboxylic acid radicals having not more than three carboxyl groups of which all but one are blocked by esterification, and where SX is the radical of a mercapto compound selected from the group consisting of aliphatic mercaptans having 8 to 18 C atoms, aromatic mercaptans, monohydric and polyhydric thioalcohols and thioalcoholesters, thioacids and thioacidesters, said radical being linked to the Sn atom through the S atom of the mer capto group.

R and R may be different monovalent hydrocarbon radicals but will be generally the same radicals because the starting materials for the preparation of the organotin mercapto compounds will be generally the di-(or tri-) hydrocarbon tin halides or oxides available in commerce. The nature of these groups has in most cases no, or only a very minor, influence on the properties of the end products. R and R may be aliphatic, aromatic, or alicyclic groups, such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, amyl, hexyl, octyl, lauryl, allyl, benzyl, phenyl, tolyl, cyclohexyl.

SX may be, for instance, the rest of a mercaptan, of a mercapto alcohol, or of an ester of a mercapto alcohol or mercapto acid.

Aliphatic and aromatic mercaptans may be employed to form said group SX. In the case of aliphatic mercaptans, we prefer mercaptans having 8 to 18 C atoms, e.g. decyl or dodecyl mercaptan, because the lower mercap tans are unsuitable for the preparation and use of the stabilizers on account of their offensive smell.

Suitable aromatic mercaptans are, for instance, thionaphthol, thiobenzyl alcohol, phenoxyethyl mercaptan, phenoxyethoxyethyl mercaptan, and others.

As examples for suitable mercapto alcohols, we may recite mono thioethylene glycol, mono thiopropylene glycol, thioglycerol, thio diethylene glycol, and others. Particularly suitable are the esters of these mercapto alcohols in which the hydroxyl groups are esterified by an aliphatic, aromatic, or alicyclic saturated or unsaturated mono carboxylic acid. An example of such an ester is e.g. thioglycol 2-ethyl hexoic acid ester.

Readily available mercapto acid esters are the esters of thioglycolic acid, such as ethyl thioglycolate, and generally the esters of mono and dibasic aliphatic and aromatic mercapto acids, such as esters of beta thiopropionic 5 acid, thiolactic acid, thiobutyric acid, alpha mercapto lauric acid, thiomalic acid, thiosalicylic acid, and the like.

The compounds are prepared by reacting one mole of a diorganotin oxide or alkoxide with one mole of the recited mercapto compounds and one mole of the recited morocarboxylic or polycarboxylic acids. If a diorganotin halide is used as starting material, preferably mercapto compounds are used in which the hydrogen of the SH group is replaced by sodium, as well as the sodium salts of the carboxylic acids.

The compounds are of particular value as stabilizers for halogen-containing resins because they do not produce the so-called cross-staining when resins stabilized therewith are brought in contact with resins or rubbers containing metal compounds, like lead or cadmium, forming colored sulfides.

The following examples will serve to illustrate the invention:

Exam le 1 p and contained 18.8% Otf tin and 5.0% of sulfur; it had a specific gravity of 1.036, and a refr. index of 1.4834 at 20 C.

Example 2 73.8 g. of mono oleyl maleate as prepared by heating equimolar amounts of maleic anhydride and oleyl alcohol, 40.4 g. of lauryl mercaptan and 50 g. of dibutyl tin oxide were heated together under stirring at 100-110 C. until the water of reaction was eliminated; the last traces of water were removed by heating the reaction product under reduced pressure. The reaction product contained 15.0% of tin and 4.0% of sulfur and had a specific gravity at 20 C. of 1.038 and a refractive index at 20 C. of 1.4890. It corresponded essentially to the dibutyl tin lauryl mercaptide oleyl ma-leate of the formula f C4Ho O O C CH CtrzHw-O O C CH We claim: Organo-tin mercapto compounds of the formula group consisting of monocarboxylic acid radicals and References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Morris et al. Sept. 6, 1949 Eberly July 10, 1951 Leistner et a1 Dec 6, 1955 Johnson July 30, 1957 Weinberg Oct. 7, 1958 

